William and Mary Bogart Clark House

51 Market Street | Two Bridges | built 1825

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The lot about 1940
About 1940. Via 1940s.nyc
The lot about 1985
About 1985. Via 80s.nyc

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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  1. 1825

    William Clark builds a Federal-style rowhouse for his family

    Wholesale grocer William Clark began construction of the two-and-a-half-story brick house in 1824 and moved his wife, Mary Bogart Clark, and their four children in as the work finished the next year. Mary descended from Everardus Bogardus, who had arrived in New Netherland in 1633, and from other old Dutch families of Manhattan. The house stood on what was then an affluent residential block of the Lower East Side.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  2. 1855

    The Reverend Ira R. Steward moves his family into the house

    Around 1855 the house became home to the Reverend Ira R. Steward, the first pastor of the nearby Mariners' Temple, a mission congregation serving sailors and dockworkers along the East River waterfront. Steward lived at 51 Market Street until his death in 1867, after which the property left the Clark family's hands for the first time in more than three decades and was bought by Thomas Maher.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  3. 1870

    Builder Thomas Hanlon raises the house to four full floors

    New owner Thomas Maher hired builder Thomas Hanlon in 1870 to enlarge the two-and-a-half-story Federal house, raising it to four stories and adding a rear extension. The work reflected the Lower East Side's shift from single-family homes toward denser rooming houses as the neighborhood filled with immigrant tenants. By 1876 the enlarged building operated as a boarding house run by a Miss French.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

  4. 1905

    Owner W. H. Hemingway hires architect Henry Janeway Hardenbergh

    In 1905 owner W. H. Hemingway commissioned Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, architect of the Dakota and the Plaza Hotel, to renovate the aging Market Street rowhouse. It was an unusual commission for a designer known for grand hotels and apartment houses to take on a small Lower East Side residence. Columbia University later acquired the property and sold it at auction in 1945 for $515,000.

    Source: Daytonian in Manhattan

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